Hard times come again no more - Foster, Stephen Collins

♪

⌛ Period → Romantic ◈ Genre → Partsongs ¶ Language → English

Instruments Piano

Pages 3

CPDL # 6291

Editor Stan Sanderson

Posted 2004-01-01

License Public Domain

¶Lyrics / Text

:Let us pause in life’s pleasures and count its many tears, :While we all sup sorrow with the poor; :There’s a song that will linger forever in our ears; :Oh Hard times come again no more. :Tis the song, the sigh of the weary, :Hard Times, hard times, come again no more :Many days you have lingered around my cabin door; :Oh hard times come again no more. :While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay, :There are frail forms fainting at the door; :Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say :Oh hard times come again no more. :There’s a pale drooping maiden who toils her life away, :With a worn heart whose better days are o’er: :Though her voice would be merry, ’tis sighing all the day, :Oh hard times come again no more. :Tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave, :Tis a wail that is heard upon the shore :Tis a dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave :Oh hard times come again no more.